Leah Busque
Co-Founder @ ShineTogether
San Francisco, United States
Leah Busque is a seed investor at ShineTogether in San Francisco focused on Software and E-Commerce. Leah Busque is the Founder and Executive Chairwoman of the Board of Directors at TaskRabit since April 2016. A pioneer of the sharing economy, Leah launched TaskRabbit in 2008 as a way to help people connect and get more done, every day. Since that time, she has been named one of Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business,” raised $50million in venture funding, and expanded the company internationally. Prior to founding TaskRabbit, Leah earned a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Sweet Briar College and worked as a Software Engineer at IBM. Leah currently lives in San Mateo, CA with her husband, daughter, and cuddly black lab, Emerson.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 23%
Last updated:
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Industries Leah Busque invests in
Stages Leah Busque invests in
Countries Leah Busque invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (23%)
- E-Commerce 3 (23%)
- SaaS 2 (15%)
- Social 2 (15%)
- Women's 2 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (77%)
- Angel 1 (8%)
- Series A 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 11 (85%)
- Spain 1 (8%)
Investments
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Woven
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Everyday Agents is pioneering the development of LLM-powered Agents for high-consideration conversations | Seed / Jun 01, 2023 | |
Prelude
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Interview Schedule provides a platform designed to streamline recruiting operations. It simplifies the most manual parts of scheduling interviews, freeing up resources to focus on top priorities. The platform supercharges recruiting coordinators by integrating with their existing systems and workflows, putting an end to the dreaded Calendar Tetris. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $1.2M / Seed / Jun 28, 2021 | |
Lovd.com
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Chums offer a new way of shopping where users can save products from any website and organize it into collections. It also enables friends to share, recommend, and discover new products and services together. The New York, New York-based company was established by Dick Fickling and Noah Elion in 2019. | $4.5M / Seed / Mar 01, 2021 | |
Autumn Adeigbo
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Autumn Adeigbo specializes in asset creation, product development, and custom sales of ethical fashion brands for women. The company Piloted an ethical fashion production program in Ghana, hiring and training 8 female artisans and raising their income an average of 91% via fair-trade wages. | $1.3M / Seed / Jul 30, 2020 | |
Candidate Labs
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Candidate Labs is a recruitment platform that offers all hiring process services for candidates and employers to connect professionally. We’re reimagining what’s possible in the recruiting space by creating a radically better experience for both professionals and the technology companies hiring them. Through end-to-end process reinvention andtechnology enablement, our team of experienced search professionals are delivering results other firms simply cannot. | $5M / Seed / Jun 25, 2020 | |
StyleRow
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StyleRow is a design company that focuses on streamlining the design process for designers and creating an experience for brands and showrooms to work together, all in one place. It features an online-based portal that allows design professionals to scale their businesses.The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in California, UnitedStates. | $4M / Seed / Jun 01, 2019 | |
Reby
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Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs. | Angel / May 25, 2019 | |
Dandy
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Dandy is a live dating app that builts to solve the problem of immense time and effort required by existing online dating experiences. It allows USC students to virtually connect through instant messages, without needing to meet in person. The live dating app emulates raw human behavior, as it gives students a convenient way to connect, byaddressing issues of unreliability and privacy on current dating apps | $2.5M / Seed / Jan 01, 2019 | |
Bark Technologies
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Bark uses AI to detect and proactively alert parents to issues their children face, such as cyberbullying, suicidal ideation, and school shooting threats. By only showing parents potential problems on their children's social media, text messaging, and email accounts, Bark's approach saves parents valuable time and helps build trustbetween parent and child.Bark Technologies was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. | $9M / Series A / Aug 29, 2018 | |
Upwards
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Upwards is a technology-driven care solutions company with a mission to make care accessible to all families and empower the caregivers who provide it. Upwards brings together families, care providers, employers, and governments to create new care avenues in real-time and utilizes a data-driven approach to enhance the supply and capacity of thecare system. Upwards matches families with caregivers equipped to meet their unique needs and connects families with the resources they need to afford care, whether through government subsidies or workplace benefits. To learn more, visit upwards.com. | $4.2M / Seed / Aug 02, 2018 | |
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Co-Investors
About ShineTogether
Shine Together is an organization dedicated to celebrating the awesome impact women have every day while creating measurable opportunities for them in the world.Founded in 2018 by Leah Busque and Jamie Viggiano, Shine Together was deeply inspired by Valerie Jarrett and the women of the Obama Administration. These impressive leaders wererelentlessly dedicated to shining a light on the successes and contributions of their female colleagues.In 2013, the cultural journalist Ann Friedman and digital strategist Aminatou Sow gave this concept a name - calling it “shine theory” and challenged women everywhere to consider whether success might be contagious.Success is limitless; the more it is celebrated and recognized, the more it will inspire future success. Shine Together is committed to the idea that women's stories deserve to be amplified to make a brighter future for everyone.
ShineTogether Contacts
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What does Leah Busque invest in?
Leah Busque invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Leah Busque closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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